Sentence examples for strong dormancy from inspiring English sources

S. torvum seeds had a strong dormancy with no germination in the untreated seeds and high early and final germination (approximately 100%) in certain treatments.

This low and sporadic germination is due to the strong dormancy behavior of teak seed, which causes a low plant percentage in nursery production.

Compared with a seed batch with weak dormancy, a seed batch with strong dormancy requires longer and/or closer to optimum and/or repeated environmental event(s) to reduce the degree of dormancy sufficiently to reach a specific germination fraction in any specific environment.

Nitric oxide is increasingly known as a strong dormancy-releasing agent in many species and shows new potential for promotion of germination in horticultural crops, especially where GA effects might be detrimental to seedling growth, or might repress early flowering.

This may be because weedy rice had primary seed dormancy (Bewley and Black [1982]; Cohn and Hughes [1981]), and generally exhibited stronger dormancy than cultivated rice (Gu et al. [2003]).

Strongest dormancy was found in P. dubium ssp.

Because of stronger dormancy for the summer-collected seeds, the germination response directly after start in the cold climate occurred mostly for autumn-collected seeds (Fig. 3).

A stronger dormancy when ripening during a warmer period (summer) than during a cooler period (autumn) seems to be a proper adaptation to avoid germination during occasional periods with circumstances suitable for germination during summer, which would be important not least in the Mediterranean region, where these taxa probably evolved (Kadereit, 1990).

Moreover, most wild rices also have strong seed dormancy (Cai and Morishima2000).

Our experiment indicates that seeds buried in the soil acquire strong secondary dormancy in late spring and regain the ability to germinate every autumn.

Therefore, strong seed dormancy during the dry season may not be important for this wild accession, and this may suggest why the wild accession possesses a QTL that reduces seed dormancy.